September 22, 1862

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            <date value='1862-09-22'>Monday, September 22, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At special cabinet meeting with all members present
  Lincoln reads chapter, "High Handed Outrage at Utica," from book by "Artemus
  Ward" (Charles Farrar Browne), before reading preliminary Emancipation
  Proclamation and announcing his decision to issue it. Early opposition of Secs.
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> and Chase is overcome. Proclamation
  provides: That on the first day of January 1863 all persons held as slaves
  within any state in rebellion against U.S. shall be forever free. President
  will designate states in rebellion on January 1, 1862. Army and navy personnel
  are prohibited by Act of March 13, 1862, from returning fugitive slaves. The
  act to suppress insurrection, approved July 17, 1862, provides that: 1. Escaped
  slaves and those in territory occupied by forces of U.S. shall be free. 2.
  Run-away slaves will not be delivered up except for crime or claim of lawful
  owner under oath that he has not borne arms against government. Executive will
  recommend that loyal citizens be compensated for all losses by acts of U.S.,
  including loss of slaves. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Salmon P. Chase, <title>Diary and
  Correspondence of Salmon P. Chase</title>, Compiled by Samuel H. Dodson,
  American Historical Association, Annual Report for the Year 1902, vol. 2
  (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903); Randall,
  <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 2:159;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A955' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Preliminary
  Emancipation Proclamation</xref>, 22 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:433-36.</bibl> 
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         <p> Detective
  A. Pinkerton pays Lincoln personal visit. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1281.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 9
  P.M. Band serenades President at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  testimonial: "Dr. [Isachar] Zacharie has operated on my feet with great
  success, and considerable addition to my comfort." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A956' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Testimonial
  for Isachar Zacharie</xref>, 22 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:436.</bibl> 
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